Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-02
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STATE NEWS.

There is talk Of rebuilding the Touring
EAill ct Nemaha.
A Catholic school building is being
erected in Wichita.
The people OF Beloit are now raising @
fund to bore for gas.
Work on the Lyons experiment hols
is processing rapidly.
A brass band at Osborne has two
young lady members.
Several hunting parties have left
Stevens county for northern TeIes.
The Jewell City Rspubzioan urges the
city schools to have q spelling bee.
Horton wants a canning factory, not
Withstanding the season Of the year.
The state reform school is proud of
one Of the finest greenhouses in the
\ state.
A PIueky Kansas girl carries the nail
between Terry and Painter City, Finney
county.
The Wichita Legal Club is the name
Of social organization Of Wichita
lawyers.
A number Of prairie fires arising from
sparks from locomotives are reported
over state.
A Strengthening and packing company
with $4,000 capital has been organized
at Fort Seott.
The commissioners OF Haskell county
are being urged to lay out and construct
roads at once.
Greeley Tribune: Greeley county
raised more corn than any county in
western Kansas.
Sixty one prisoners have been sent up
TO the penitentiary from Cowley county
within four years.
Atohison Champion: Grass in the
front yards is as green and IuxuriRnt as
In the spring time.
A grocery store WAS robbed at Usage
City a few days ago. About SI25 worth
OF goods were stolen.
The Missouri Pacific station at
Hoisington was burglaEized last week.
About $3.50 was taken.
Sedan has voted $4,000 to bore for
hidden treasures of the earth and will
commence work next week.
The grading Of the Kansas City, Wy
andOtte, and Northwestern railroad has
been completed from Goffs to Seneca.
A new kind OF theft has developed near
Parsons. Farmers report long stretches
Of the barbed wire on their fences stolen.
Citizens of Reid, the new town in
Greeley county, are raising money TO
build q school house and employ a
teacher.
Fort Scott will sink a deep gas well.
A joint stock company has been organ
led for the purpose, and all citizens can
take stock.
The Santa Fe officials have appealed
TO the city council Of Usage City TO keep
the children Of that burg out from under
the car wheels.
Ellis Headlight: A Prairie fire started
south OF Ogallah, last week, and by noon
and reached q point some two or three
miles west Of Ellis.
Local prize fighters are in the Wiebi-
ia papers quite often, talking about
''hghting TO the finish, "baFs knUckles'',
$4,000 a side'', etc.
Marion county has tried the Crawford
county system Of nomination for officers
and rejected it. Harvey county has
adopted the system.
A barker in Sedan, who wishes to
close up his business and leave the state
states that he meet with difficulty in
getting rid of his deposits.
Harper Sentinel: Lee Mosier, Who
was hanged for murder in Wichita on
the 11th inst, has been buried on his
fathers farm near FreepOri.
The new S25, 900 addition to the state
normal school building at Emporia, Kan,
has seen completed and will be ready for
occupancy in a short time.
Arkansas City Republican TraVsLsr:
Five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
are now being expended in this city on
public and private buildings.
Hartford Gail: Thomas Rogers, a lad
about sixteen years of age, was thrown
from a horse and so badly injured that
it is feared he viii not recover.
Emporia Republican: The district
court docket has been completed. There
are 1876 civil and ten criminal cases, the
lightest docket for several years.
Hayesville, sedgwiok county, was
nesrly destroyed by fire recently, being
fred by burglars who were ct work Ia
one Of the principal store buildings.
Arkansas City Republican, Traveller:
A rabbit with two horns on its head the
length Of a finger was killed near Maple
City, by boy by the name OF Thomas.
Atchison Champion: The Missouri
river sand, which is found in greas
abundance Just south Of the city, e
equal to the best quality Of KaW river
sand.
lola Colrant: The lola public schools
viii give an entertainment on Thanks
giving evening for the purpose Of raising.
funds to purchase reference books for
school use.
The Scott City Sentinel urges ths
ladies Of that place TO be sociabls to new
corners, and hopes that Scott City msy
be rsputsd for, frs, its business capacity,
and second, its sociability.
Arkansas City Republican Traveller:
Arkansas City nos has i've good, strong,
substantial banking institutions and
large building IN which the sixth VIII b
located is nearly finished.
Fort Scott Monitor: It lie an interest
ing sight to visit the gisss works on
VWaTnerGav aFkarn0or and go thu H,fovy